Word: jargoning
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...eyeshade, a warehouse apron or the plain smock of a trade. This time, for the first time, she came in as fine a dress as ever Publishing wore to wait on the Arts, Travel, Sport, Fashion or Society. And this time she spoke a cosmopolitan language instead of industrial jargon, commercial slang, financial smalltalk. This time her name was FORTUNE, a $1-the-copy, $10-the-year monthly magazine published by TIME...
...dictionary do readers of average U. S. newspapers need for such journalistic jargon as sugar daddy, love nest, heart balm, torch murder. But last week the epigrammarians who write U. S. head lines were confronted by a phrase which even they could not grasp without assistance...
...Villon spoke the jargon of the Coquillards, a medieval freemasonry of blackguards who systematically plundered, lechered, toped throughout France. He wrote vigorous verses, high poetry. Behind these two varying expressions was a weathercock temperament. Born in 1431, he was raised from the age of seven in the home of a benign Parisian priest. Francois took both the bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Paris. One midnight, when the priest had gone to bed, the student crept out the door, made his way to the Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With...
...first act discovers Elmer Gantry, newly ordained and already eloquent in the jargon of eternal love and mortal lust, laying siege to little Lulu Bains, daughter of a deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...
...House was never troubled by ethical problems except when integrity was obviously the best policy. Metternich made the brothers Barons; they bought and fawned their way into the society of five capitals. But they remained shrewd moneylenders, with the noses and eyes of hawks, speaking and writing an uncouth jargon of many dialects of French, German, Yiddish. Count Corti quotes one contemporary comment upon a Rothschild: "King of Jews and Jew of Kings." Another, better, he omits: "Princes in the parlor and pawnbrokers in the kitchen...